RE: Cambodia Is Just Better 🛺 And Already Living In The Future 👨‍🌾

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hahaha.. I never knew that type of questions came first for a westerner. yea. it stinks to have someone who constantly wants to change the way we view the world with a forced idea of how they want us to view it. I guess maybe because in the Western society, everyone is more independent. In Malaysia, 20 years olds are still treated as babies by their parents. In Sarawak, the native people known as the Ibans have very strong family bonds, everytime they have festivals, the whole family gathers in a long house. The long house has a really really long hallway with no barriers or walls and rooms for each family at the side. They gather around and drink tuak "rice wine" and dance all night long. Very nice people.


Not photoshopped. - Along the way out of town, many long houses can be seen. They can span up to 100s of family. The modern long houses now are modern. This is one of the unique tribe characteristics of Sarawak that can't be seen elsewhere in Malaysia. The Ibans were knowns as the head hunters in the past for they kept heads of their enemies as trophies. No longer practised.

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Of course SE Asia isn't Shangri-La, and you mentioned the parents treating their kids like children into their 20s. This extreme doting on children is common in Cambodia, and it's not something I'm a big fan of. All-in-all though, I find the way of life much more pleasurable and stress-free.

I've lived in some pretty long rental room blocks before, but nothing like this building. And I used to think I knew my rental room neighbors, like family I could say, but not literally family like the Ibans. I am sure the rice wine helps to ease any tensions brewing within the "landship" (that's too long to be just a house).

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